Experienced teachers and counselors at good secondary schools will tell you:
- A course should provide all that is necessary for mastery of the material. The student needs to pay attention in class, do the work, study, and meet with the teacher as needed.
2, Tutors are only needed if the student is struggling in a subject after doing everything in #1 above. - Tutors or advance work in subjects in which a student is not struggling is a distortion of the high school experience.
- Tutors or advance work in pursuit of a desired grade, not learning, is a distortion of the high school experience.
- B’s are OK. “Needing” a certain grade or GPA is a distortion of what education is all about.
6, students need time in their day for family, down time, entertainment, sleep, friends, interests, sports, fun, reading, daydreaming. Filling all waking hours with academics is unhealthy and counterproductive in the long run. - The race to an “Ivy” is a fool’s errand that shows little understanding of what college is or does.